976 Quotes by John Lennon

My original idea for the cover was better – decapitate Paul – but he wouldn’t go along with it.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.

I don’t want to grow up but I’m sick of not growing up -? that way. I’ll find a different way of not growing up. There’s a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn’t saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: ‘Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?’

If we took over Britain, then we’d have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.